Federal and State Listed Mammals in Texas

In Texas, animal or plant species of conservation concern may be listed as threatened or endangered under the authority of state law and/or under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Species may be listed as state threatened or endangered and not federally listed. The state list only addresses the status of a species within Texas. A federal listing means that a species is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range which may encompass several other states or nations.

Candidate species are those organisms the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has sufficient information on to propose as endangered or threatened under the ESA but development of a proposed listing regulation is precluded by other higher priority listing activities. Unlike species listed under the ESA, candidates receive no statutory protection.

Species are ranked (Global and State)
using a conservation status system established by NatureServe.

Common Name

Scientific Name

State Status

Federal Status

Global Rank

State Rank

Atlantic Spotted Dolphin

Stenella frontalis

Threatened

G5

S1

Black Bear

Ursus americanus

Threatened

G5

S3

Coues' Rice Rat

Oryzomys couesi

Threatened

G5T2T4

S2

Dwarf Sperm Whale

Kogia simus

Threatened

G4

S1

False Killer Whale

Pseudorca crassidens

Threatened

G4

S1

Finback Whale

Balaenoptera physalus

Endangered

Endangered

G3G4

S1

Gervais' Beaked Whale

Mesoplodon europaeus

Threatened

G3

S1

Goose-beaked Whale

Ziphius cavirostris

Threatened

G4

S1

Gray Wolf

Canis lupus

Endangered

Endangered

G4G5

SX

Humpback Whale

Megaptera novaeangliae

Endangered

Endangered

G4

SNR

Jaguar

Panthera onca

Endangered

Endangered

G3

SH

Jaguarundi

Herpailurus yaguarondi

Endangered

Endangered

G4

S1

Killer Whale

Orcinus orca

Threatened

G4G5

S1

Louisiana Black Bear

Ursus americanus luteolus

Threatened

G5T2

SNA

Mexican Long-nosed Bat

Leptonycteris nivalis

Endangered

Endangered

G2G3

S1

Ocelot

Leopardus pardalis

Endangered

Endangered

G4

S1

Palo Duro Mouse

Peromyscus truei comanche

Threatened

G5T2

S2

Pygmy Killer Whale

Feresa attenuata

Threatened

G4

S1

Pygmy Sperm Whale

Kogia breviceps

Threatened

G4

SNR

Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat

Corynorhinus rafinesquii

Threatened

G3G4

S3

Red Wolf

Canis rufus

Endangered

Endangered

G1Q

SX

Rough-toothed Dolphin

Steno bredanensis

Threatened

G4

S1

Short-finned Pilot Whale

Globicephala macrorhynchus

Threatened

G5

S1

Southern Yellow Bat

Lasiurus ega

Threatened

G5

S1

Spotted Bat

Euderma maculatum

Threatened

G4

S2

Texas Kangaroo Rat

Dipodomys elator

Threatened

G2

S1

West Indian Manatee

Trichechus manatus

Endangered

Endangered

G2

S1

White-nosed Coati

Nasua narica

Threatened

G5

S2?

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